WIDER OUTLOOK

News from across the City Council approves plan to more than halve carbon emissions by 2025 Following the declaration of a Climate Emergency, the council have now approved plans to cut the council’s carbon footprint by 55%. These include switching to 100% renewable electricity, rolling out the district heating network to council buildings, and doubling the REPORTING BACK fleet of electric vehicles - already the largest of any local authority in the UK. We hope these bold plans will inspire individuals, Updates from your local Labour and Co-operative councillor businesses and central government to follow its lead by reducing their own carbon footprint. Following the four-month Big Climate Conversation public Peter Carlill consultation more than 97% of nearly 8,000 respondents believe that combating climate change and protecting biodiversity should be a priority for , with residents supporting Delivered free by local volunteers switching to healthy climate-friendly menus in schools. On an individual level, nine out of ten respondents agreed that their actions can help tackle climate change. Welcome to this edition of my newsletter We can’t solve climate change on our own, but together we can make a huge difference. For ideas and tips of what you This is the first newsletter since the local elections last year, and I can do to tackle the climate emergency, and to find out how big your personal carbon budget is, visit the council’s Leeds By Example website at www.leedsbyexample.co.uk would like to thank all residents for re-electing me as your councillor. It is an honour and a privilege to continue to serve the Major improvements at Leeds Station inside and area in which I live, and to be able to make improvements right out across the ward. Speaking to residents to listen to local concerns I was privileged to be able to open the newly transformed I’ve continued to speak to local residents through my monthly entrance to Leeds City Station in my role as Chair of the Leeds District Transport Committee. surgeries, regular street surgeries and through countless pieces of individual casework, as well as attending some of our great community events. Most recently The work has transformed the environment outside the these included the light switch-on events in and Farsley, and helping to main entrance, making it more spacious, more inviting and organise the switch-on event in Rodley which was a success as always. There have easier to use for rail users and bus passengers. also been the important events to remember those from our area who lost their As well as creating a more fitting gateway for people arriving lives in the two world wars, and as well as the ceremonies in Calverley and Farsley Speaking in Council to raise in the city, the improvements will mean quicker and easier it was great to be able to attend the first remembrance event at newly access and interchange between train and bus, particularly concerns about transport in our re-opened Farsley Baptist ‘Rehoboth’ Cemetery to honour those buried there. area and across the City during peak times. As the busiest railway station in the North of , more Naheem Alam selected as your candidate Leeds District Transport Committee chair Peter Carlill with improvements are planned in the future. Rob McIntosh, Managing Director Eastern for Network Rail Calverley and Farsley Labour Party are proud to announce Naheem Alam as their candidate for the council elections in May this year. Here to help Surgery Details: Naheem is a local resident and community campaigner, having been involved in campaigns such as saving post office, saving local playing fields and supporting the homeless in Leeds and . Peter Carlill St Johns Church Hall New Street, Farsley, LS28 5DJ Councillor for Calverley and Farsley Ward 1st Monday of the month, 6:15pm -7:15pm He brings a wealth of experience through his work as a careers adviser in which he spent many years supporting young people, working with a range of If you would like to speak with me about any local issues or St James Church Galloway Lane, Pudsey, LS28 8JR agencies and groups and advocating on behalf of others. concerns affecting you, please get in touch using the contact 2nd Friday of the month, 6:15pm-7:15pm Naheem with Councillor Peter Carlill and details below, or visit me at one of my council surgeries. “Naheem has been tireless in campaigning for his area on a number of issues, Police and Crime Commissioner Mark such as joining me in meeting the Police and Crime Commissioner to discuss Burns-Williamson discussing local Tel: 07758 216244 The Church in Rodley Wesley Street, Rodley, LS13 1JH policing concerns in Pudsey. 2nd Saturday of the month, 10am - 11am concerns around drugs, burglaries and anti-social driving in the Pudsey area. I Email: [email protected] know he would do a great job continuing this work as your councillor” Facebook: facebook.com/CllrPeterCarlill Calverley Library Thornhill Street, Calverley, LS28 5PD Twitter: twitter.com/PeterCarlill 2nd Saturday of the month, 11:30am-12:30pm INSIDE: REPORTING BACK - Updates from my work across the ward

Printed by LS1 Print, Matrix House, Goodman Street, Leeds. Working for you all year round in Calverley, Farsley, Promoted by Peter Carlill on behalf of Calverley and Farsley Labour Party, both at 13 Farfield Avenue, Farsley, LS28 5HD. Pudsey, Rodley, , Thornbury and Woodhall Victory for the Community in the Shooting of Geese in A welcome rise in Youth Club REPORTING BACK Rodley provision across the ward Updates from local Labour and Co-operative councillor Thanks to the local community for their work in highlighting the issues After taking the leader of the Youth Service on a around the culling of Canada geese in Rodley and I was very happy to tour of the area last year, they responded to my be able to support their campaign. call with an increase in youth provision in our area. I’m glad to report our new youth club in These are not acts I am happy to see in the village, especially conducted Farsley is going from strength to strength and in the irresponsible manner we have seen with reports of dead geese has now relocated to larger premises thanks to Peter Carlill being found in residents gardens, on local football pitches, and large the team at Farsley Celtic. groups of armed men walking around the village causing understandable distress. The additional mobile youth provision in Calverley, Rodley, on Highfield Green and along Improvements for Local Buses Thanks to their work we have seen permission withdrawn for these Bradford Road is also being well attended and I After I met with First about the poor performance of acts to take place but I am clear that the real issue is the lack of hope to see these being replaced with fixed the 35 route through Rodley and Calverley we clarity and enforcement powers in the existing shooting laws. I youth clubs in the future. have seen reliability on this service increase recently wrote a joint letter with Rachel Reeves MP to the from a dismal 55% to 84% last year but there Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Tackling Climate Change locally is still more to do to get to the target of 95%. to call for an urgent review into these laws, and more powers for authorities to curb irresponsible shooting. It was great to see the We need a bus service that is reliable and fit new trees being planted Plans for a new Sports Hub, cafe and for purpose but there are still regular in the areas I suggested children’s play areas at Woodhall delays and cancellations on many routes Calverley Farsley and Calverley alongside the ringroad Before Christmas it was great to see plans across the area. The council is working to Libraries to become recently. These are the for the new sports hub at Woodhall Sports improve bus journeys at peak times Community Hubs first of many measures I Pavillion and I'm happy that they listened to through its city-wide LPTIP programme, Plans to refurbish and would like to see in our my requests for what local residents with and the Bradford- Rodley transform Calverley and Farsley area to tackle climate Libraries into community hubs needed most and have included not one, Leeds corridor as priorities. change, increase biodiversity and improve air but two much-needed childrens' play areas will be starting this year. These quality - so watch this space! to the proposal - a really welcome facility will offer the same library It was also great to get New Trains for New Pudsey services as they currently do, but for families in this area. involved with the planting Plans also include a community cafe, tree I regularly meet with Northern Rail to will also give the possibility for a wide range of other council and community of the new community planting and walking routes. discuss issues at New Pudsey station orchard at Brookfield and across the City. I was pleased to see Farsley services to be provided. In nearby Pudsey, services such as housing and benefits Country Park. Thanks to that the long-awaited new trains are now those from the Calverley in service at New Pudsey which should advice, local police surgeries, job search and support and more are provided, and Brookfield increase capacity at peak periods, but it Allotments and Calverley Horticultural Society, as is disappointing that the withdrawal of making these services much more accessible to residents. well as the local brownies and guides, for the old pacer trains has been delayed. Woodhall organising and getting stuck in with the planting! The news that Northern will be stripped Stanningley There will unfortunately be a period where the of the franchise is welcome, but there is libraries will be closed for the works, and I have still lots to be done to improve the poor asked whether an interim solution could be Working to improve local parks performance and delays that rail users provided so there is still the availability of library Local parks are important to all residents, for across the North see on a daily basis. Thornbury services during the works. recreation, in keeping active, or just to enjoy the Pudsey fresh air. Tackling the impact of school traffic New Little Free West Leeds Councillors call for speed I’ve been helping to protect and improve local School parking and traffic is a concern all Library Coming to cameras along the A647 green spaces such as working to save Sunnybank across the ward and I’ve been actively Galloway Lane Last year I joined a campaign led by councillors in the Recreation ground for local residents, improving involved in trying to solve the issues, By the end of the inner west areas calling for more speed cameras along proposals for Woodhall Sports Pavilion, looking especially at Priesthorpe where antisocial month a new Little Remember, you can the length of the A647 (from Stanningley Road in , to bring forward further green spaces in driving and parking has caused a nightmare Free Library will be along Stanningley Bypass, and along Bradford Road from Woodhall, and working with the Friends of for local residents for many years. installed at St James The Great Church. keep up to date with my Dawsons Corner to Thornbury). Hainsworth Park group to bring improvements This is the third one we have funded after the work and community The sections in Armley have seen a number of tragic to this much loved local park in Farsley. We’ve At other schools you will hopefully see our ones on Westdale Drive in Pudsey and accidents and speeding is commonplace along the section also been in discussion on proposals to bring a new ‘parking buddy’ road signs in use as Newlands in Farsley. The concept is simple: updates on my Facebook past Dawsons Corner and Thornbury Barracks. skatepark to the area, which will offer a real across the ward. Funded by the Outer West either take a book, or leave a book. There’s no page at facebook.com/ We have been successful in getting additional mobile opportunity for young people to have something Community Committee these encourage need to return it, and there’s no pressure to camera sites so far, but we will keep pushing for fixed to do, and to keep active. It’ll be great to see all good behaviour and are having an impact. leave one, just do as you please! CllrPeterCarlill cameras or average speed cameras along the route. these plans come closer to delivery this year.

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